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Have a good fran here who's younger than most of our crowd.

Aug 20, 2019, 10:31 AM

Him and his wife are mid 30s, but have 3 kids that are all about the same age as ours, or a year or two younger, so we get the whole crowd together lots of weekends. They're from Jersey, and his wife will definitely go from 0 to Jersey in 4/10 of a second if you're a habitual linestepper. Guy's grandfather went to ND, so he's a sidewalk ND fan, but at least has a tenuous connection to the school. I've taken him to a game each of the past 2 years, and he's adopting Clemson as his second team. His wife is angry that I haven't gotten BOTH of them up to a game, so that's happening this fall.

Anyway, he's former Navy and works in cybersecurity for a gubmint contractor. He recently discovered the Clemson building at the old Navy base that I randomly ran across a few years ago, but don't know much about.

He told the wife about it (this was maybe 3 weeks ago), and she did some quick research and discovered it's an engineering branch, with actual classes and professors and Masters coursework. He walked in, and talked to the Dean about their curriculum. Turns out, they have the degree he's looking for--EE masters with a cybersecurity focus. Dean was like "put in an application, and let me know when you do, and I'll approve it." GI Bill is paying for it, AND giving him $1,500/month to attend school, AND he's so non-busy at his $100K work from home job now that he can do both, at least as long as this contract lasts. He went to orientation on Sunday, and I think classes start tomorrow. Saw him this weekend, and his phone and watch screensavers were already tiger paws.

He went from discovering that facility even exists, to starting a class, in roughly 3 weeks. I'm so proud right now.

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He was a real chitasz. I signed up for 24 hours Spring of 88 intending to graduate after the second 6 wk session and he said, 'You'll never do it!'

I told that sumbich if the Wright Brothers had listened to naysayers we'd still be taking ships to Europe.

He said, 'I don't know what kind of game you are playing but I will not sign for you to drop any of the classes.'

I got a 3.0 GPR that semester on 24 hrs classwork and dropped by to show that buttwipe my grades and get him to sign me up for a 9 hr/6 wk session. He had no comments and when I signed up for another 9hr-6wk session he had no comment.

I threatened to paint Lee Hall's back parking lot with Prof. Eubanks. I hated those two but I had some of the nicest people teaching me. It was rare to find an askhole professor at Clemson back in the day, how I ran across two was strange but I was 37yrs/old and didn't have time to #### around anymore.

Have a good fran here who's younger than most of our crowd.

Pigs

It can be good......

Aight.

Must like dogs

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Yeah you need to delete this***

go ahead

Re: Yeah you need to delete this***

If you bring them to the tailgate, you need to warn them I'm

He's actually been to your tailgate.

While it is true that I'm a scary guy in general....

blame me all you want. But you all know #### well

Which begs the question...

I like to keep that as a surprise til week of.

Was that the Kent St. or the GT game?***

I think I really would get a lot more out of college if

It's never too late

Looks like he is

Dr Book was my adviser at Clemson.

Here's a Benaglined version of that building

Amazing quality for Benagline.

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